The patron saint of the village is Our Lady of Brotas, a devotion dating back to the 15th century. According to tradition, this devotion originated in the village of Águias, more specifically in the place called Brotas da Barroca, which at that time was completely uninhabitable due to its extreme humidity and the large pit surrounded by ravines, which local toponymy designated as Inferno, Inferninho, and Purgatório (Hell, Little Hell, and Purgatory). Legend tells that while a shepherd was tending his cow there, it carelessly slipped and fell dead to the bottom of the pit. When he realized what had happened, the shepherd, deprived of his main source of income to support his family, confided his grief to the Virgin, imploring her protection. Next, he began to skin the animal, and after cutting off the leg that had broken from the violent fall, the Blessed Virgin appeared to him, advising him to remain calm and asking him to tell the inhabitants of Águias to build a chapel there, saying that as soon as he returned he would find the cow alive. The shepherd did so, and when he returned to that place with his countrymen, the cow was already grazing as if nothing had happened, and from the leg that had been cut off, an image of the Virgin had appeared. Shortly before 1424, the hermitage was erected there, as a simple commandery of the Military Order of Saint Benedict of Avis and dependent on the village of Águias. And the image of Our Lady of Brotas was preserved there, about a hand's breadth tall and made of bone, perfectly harmonizing with the details of tradition.

(Source: cm-mora.pt/locai)

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